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Euptoieta claudia - Variegated Fritillary

last year I watched one develop a chrysalis https://permies.com/t/285614/Euptoieta-claudia-Variegated-Fritillary-caterpillar

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some clearer photos of a pipevine swallowtail....the blue green barely shows in the sunlight.

a 'painted lady' or ?
I could not get a picture of wing spread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_cardui

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Yesterday afternoon for a half hour or so that we noticed....not sure where they ended up but courtship was all around the tithonia.
The male hovering closely as the female sipped nectar.....he was somewhat smaller even though that's not apparent in my photos.

I got several videos but have not used my youtube account in so long I need to dig out a password.
They were quite entertaining for as long as we could take the heat😊

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please let me know if I've misidentified any butterflies in this thread😊

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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finally caught a painted lady with open wings.

fewer butterflies and more bumblebees on the tithonia yesterday and today.

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I'm so glad this post resurfaced, thank you very much for sharing your beautiful garden and the abundance of butterflies. I'm a little envious. I have lots of life in my gardens, but almost never see butterflies lots of cabbage moths that I used to enjoy until I realized what they are. Maybe because I live between a walnut orchard and a almond orchard. Unfortunately they drive by in their hazmat suit and spray ?
I enjoyed your photos and videos thanks.

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thank you Jen!
The tithonia (mexican sunflower), is the big attraction here and then coming in second for attracting pollinators and butterflies is my bright lights cosmos, oranges and yellows and big tall plants....both flower for a long time, even better if I dead head and don't mind the heat. This year I am watering some of them.

I have a lot of the cosmos seed and could send you some?
The tithonia seed I'm having to share with the goldfinches and my share is quite small🫤

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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